March 2009
6 posts
schadenfreude spark
so protip, boys and girls: handing me something like nyuh is approximately like squirting an eyedropper of blood into a shark tank. it’s almost like the article is trying to mock the situation with context and timing, even though they are bound to some modicum of neutrality in journalism.
e.g. you write that they are opening an entirely free (ostensibly Free) music service and then the...
example: a cell phone camera has a shutter release which plays an audible camera shutter sound, something that would sound like a DSLR, when depressed. there is no way to turn it off, not even when the cell phone is on vibrate or silent.
on state/harrison on the day that they dye the chicago river green with boats, i am riding my bike (as i do) and a car pulls up too close to me (as it does). a couple is inside; the dude is driving, and the lady is reclined all the way back with her foot hanging out the window. it’s nice outside. her shoe is off for some reason, so all that is on her foot is a sock. she is sleeping, and...
shuffle perilous
i am in a room where i have to fold and bind books for my letterpress class. it is the last day of the class (sadly) and we’ve all got beers around and it’s getting sort of quiet as we embroil ourselves in our respective bookbinding duties, like a big glorified assembly line. and then the bomb drops: “i wish we had some music in here.” okay, so i offer my iphone, playing...
kindlephone
i was on the blue line outbound on friday and saw a still-rare kindle-in-the-wild (though not quite as unicorn-like as the zune-toting juggalo that i saw thursday). it was being used by a person who also had (and was listening to music on) an iphone. and i had to wonder if they felt that they wasted over three hundred dollars when the kindle iphone app came out, or if they wilfully ignore the...
i am in here
i am in a coffee shop right now, as i do many days, because i am writing a book. the book is coming along well, it is about interface design. a lot of interesting and wonderful things have happened in this place over the past few months, and here is one of them:
funky strike: i just got my own table a red aeroplane: oh good a red aeroplane: i will come join you at said table funky strike: before...